War Front Dispatches and Home Front Notes
Reports from the Austro Hungarian, British and French fronts detail Italian trench actions near Brenta and Monte Pertica, a Haig update noting no major actions, and air raids on Karlsruhe. The piece covers winter conditions, Russian legion moves, U S draft law changes, fuel shortages, and a spate of domestic and war related incidents including the Camp Funston bank robbery, coal curtailment, and political shifts.
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Austro-Hungarian War Office
Brenta
Monte Pertica
Stolen Army Bank Funds Recovered At Camp Funston
At Camp Funston Kansas the $62,000 taken by Capt. Lewis Whisler after murdering four civilians and wounding another was found hidden in a wall compartment behind a book shelf in his quarters. Col. J. R. Mitchell took charge. authorities say Whisler was mentally unbalanced and the main incident is closed with minor details to be investigated.
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Army Bank of Funston
Lewis Whisler
Camp Funston
Kan
J. R. ‘Mitchell
354Th Infantry
Whisler
Captain Whisler
Garfield Puts Ban on Coal to Ease Fuel Shortage
Washington announces a five day shutdown for most east of the Mississippi manufacturing plants starting Friday. A ten week Monday holiday is ordered for industry and heated buildings with limited exceptions for ships, munition plants, drugs, food and essential offices.
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Washington
Mississippi River
Garfield
Wilson
Labor Administration Bans Women From Jobs Men Hold
Washington January 17 The newly created Labor Administration announced the policy to prevent the introduction of woman labor in positions for which men are still available.
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Washington
Labor Administration
Roosevelt to Head American Meat Society Honorary President
New York January 17 Theodore Roosevelt has accepted the honorary presidency of the American meat society the executive committee announced at its luncheon today.
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T. Re
Defense Society
New York
Jan
Theodore Roosevelt
American Meee Society
Pneumonia Prevalence and Home Care Guidance
The University of Missouri preventive medicine department reports higher pneumonia prevalence this winter and issues a bulletin on symptoms and treatment. It notes pneumonia spreads by close contact, causes high fever and delirium, and begins like a cold before worsening. Fresh air and warmth, daily luke warm baths, plenty of water, soft rich foods, and avoidance of meat are advised. seek a doctor early and isolate the patient with proper disinfection.
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University of Missouri
Claud Piersol Won’t Be Used Against Adams in Marshfield Trial
Claud Piersol, convicted of baby Lloyd Keet’s kidnapping, names Taylor Adams as a participant but will not testify in Adams’s Marshfield trial set for January 21. Prosecutor O Day says Piersol’s testimony isn’t needed and asserts a strong state case. Subpoenas for witnesses have been issued. both sides ready for trial. Adams faces kidnapping charges and ties to a plot to abduct jeweler C A Clement. Sheriff Mackey has kept Adams confined with daily cell searches.
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Claud Piersol
Lloyd Keet
Mackey
Webster County
Taylor Adams
Adams
O’day
Marshfield
Piersol
C. A. Clement
Springfield
Death of Joseph Anthony in Sedalia
Joseph Anthony of Sedalia dies at age seventy five. He was born in Morgan County Missouri. Survived by his wife two sisters and a brother.
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Joseph Anthony
Sedalia
Morgan County
Missouri
New Music Director Named at Christian College Columbia
Henry H. Loudenback founder and director of the Loudenback School of Music Atchison Kansas appointed director of music at Christian College Columbia He began his duties immediately.
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Columbia
Henry H. Loudenback
Loudenback School of Music
Atchison, Kas
Christian College
Butler Woman Dead at 97 in Winston-Salem Birth Date Given
Mrs. Lucinda Dobson of Butler dies at age 97. Born April 26, 1821 in Winston-Salem North Carolina. Survived by one daughter twenty grandchildren thirty seven great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
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Butler
Lucinda Dobson
Winston-Salem
N. C
Farmer Sells 700 Pound Hog Near Poplar Bluff
Otto Stockton, a farmer near Poplar Bluff, sold a hog weighing 700 pounds for 103.95 dollars. The sale reflects brisk farm activity in the region as livestock prices remain steady.
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Otto Stockton
Poplar Bluff
Retired Contractor Charles Woodward Dies in Sedalia
Charles Mortimer Woodward born May 26 1838 in Schuyler County New York dies in Sedalia. A retired building contractor and Civil War veteran he is survived by a single son Del C Moore of Sedalia.
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Charles Mortimer Woodward
Schuyler County
N. Y
Sedalia
del C. Moore
Churches United Then Split In Poplar Bluff
Two Poplar Bluff Methodist churches that united Easter Sunday separated at a recent meeting. Disagreement over appointing a single preacher for the united church led to the split, with bishops and local members unable to reach a consensus.
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Poplar Bluff
United Church
Railroad President Dead
James T. Long of Kansas City, president of the Ozark Money, died of pneumonia recently at the Planters Hotel in St Louis.
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James T. Long
Kansas City
The
Ozark Money
Seid
Planters Hotel
St Louis
Limit sugar sales and rationing urged by Missouri Food Administration
The Missouri Division of the United States Food Administration urges wholesalers and retailers to limit sugar and flour purchases and match packaging to consumer needs. Retail grocers should sell sugar in five to ten pound rural quantities and two to five pound city quantities, with caps on wholesale sales. Confectioners may use eighty percent of normal sugar. The report also notes corn shipments increasing to western Oklahoma after freight car delays, addressing regional feed shortages.
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Missouri Division
United States Food Administration
Sugar Division
Missouri
Oklahoma
F. L. Rounsevelt
The
Marketing Commission of Oklahoma
Nervous Woman Finds Cure Through Pinkham Remedy
Mrs. Alice Heller of Christopher Illinois describes four years of irregularities and nervousness. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her and restoring regularity and health. The ad claims thousands of women benefited and offers guidance from Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Christopher
Lydia E. Pinkham
Nerous
Alic Heller
Lydi E. Pinkham
Freight collision kills livestock near Sedalia
A head on collision of two trains on the Missouri Kansas and Texas line at Clifton City twelve miles north of Sedalia killed a carload of sheep and a carload of hogs. Frozen brakes caused the wreck.
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Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Clifton City
Sedalia
Won’t Close Sanitarium Despite Fund Shortage
Dr E C Roseberry member of the hospital board says the Missouri State Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Mount Vernon will not shut down for lack of funds. Governor Gardner advised a board meeting to explore ways to raise money as expenses threaten depletion within months.
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Mount Vernon
E. C. Roseberry
Jefferson City
Gardner
Moberly Court House and Businesses Burn in Fire
A blaze in Moberly's business district destroyed four store buildings and the Forney building court house on the second floor. Valuable records were lost including hundreds of questionnaires left in a small safe. Total losses exceed $100,000.
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Moberly Court House
Moberly
Court House
Forney
Women letter carriers drop after 15 day trial
Postmaster Col in M Selph says women letter carriers failed the city routes trial. After a 15 day test, he announced their services would be discontinued because the work was too heavy for them.
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Colin M. Selph
Former Katy Official Dead At 68 In Los Angeles
Samuel K. Bullard longtime Sedalia superintendent for the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad died at his Los Angeles home at age 68. He served the railway for many years and was a prominent figure in regional transportation circles.
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Katy
Samuel K. Bullard
Sedalia
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Los Angeles
Cal
Draft Halts Court Term In Carroll County
Judge Frank P. Diverbiss ordered Sheriff I. N. Calvert to dismiss jurors for the January term of the Carroll county circuit court. The action came as attorneys in Carroll county are busy helping draft registrants complete questionnaires. There are 1,650 registrants in the county. Uncontested cases will be tried this term.
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Frank P. Diverbiss
I. N. Calvert
Carroll County
Woman farmer earns 1082 from 300 hens in 1917
Mrs. E. 8. Dunlap of Callaway county sold produce in 1917 from three hundred hens that yielded 1082 dollars. Each hen laid about 140 eggs over the year in twelve months.
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E. 8
Dunlap
Callaway County
James Sloan Dead at Excelsior Springs
James Sloan 80 pioneer hotel man of Excelsior Springs died. He operated a back line to Liberty before the railroad came into town in the early eighties and later.
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James Sloan
Excelsior
Excelsior Springs
Liberty
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